This is not a mindless action movie, this is an extremely well written and well acted film. I am a Jim Morrison fan, and have watched Morrison's short film 'Highway' about 20 times. 'Mojave' is obviously patterned after it and they have done an incredible job capturing the magic of a discontented rich celebrity who goes to the Mojave desert to find clarity. I like the fact that the lead never breaks and never becomes a victim, instead he becomes more deadly than the psycho genius haunting his world.

A thriller that skirts some of the issues of Hamlet. Surprise after surprise builds and mounts preparing the audience for the tension in the story line which then gives rise to an ending which one might not expect. Character traits unfold and are put to the test as the two main characters repeatedly negotiate on levels which never meet but always spark the audience's interest.

Mojave (2016) is simply just a bland and boring movie. I wouldn't necessarily call it a snoozefest, but I definitely had a hard time paying attention. Everything here feels perfectly mediocre, nothing is overwhelmingly good, but nothing is overwhelmingly bad. The directing is pretty flat and lifeless. I wouldn't say that anything caught my eye or even peaked my interest. The writing is pretty decent, and there are some very good lines of dialogue. However, a lot of that dialogue is out of place. A character would say a very witty line, but it would really have no context for that particular scene. The acting is also decent, with Oscar Isaac being the highlight. Still, it was still pretty funny to hear him call literally every single living thing he meets "brother". With all that being said, 'Mojave' is extremely forgettable. I would personally not suggest it, on the basis that most who watch it will forget it within a week. A24 is honestly one of the best and most consistently good independent film companies working right now, so this was extremely disappointing coming from them.

Random is a term that gets bandied about quite a bit in this day and age but it's certainly the perfect word to describe The Departed and Kingdom of Heaven scribe William Monahan's second directional effort Mojave, a film that feels lost in its own self-worth and finds itself wondering along aimlessly through its 90 minute runtime to a conclusion that neither justifies or explains why we've been mistreated to this wannabe exposition of fame, internal demons and hamming it up Mark Wahlberg's.It's particularly random that Monaghan convinced one of the industry's current brightest stars in the form of Oscar Isaac to appear in this deranged cautionary tale and after a string of memorable films in the likes of A Most Violent Year and the excellent Ex_Machina, this is Isaacs first outright failure in sometime even though he certainly gives it his all as the menacing drifter Jack who haunts Garrett Hedlund's lead Tom from the dry plains to the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles.There was clearly hope here that Monahan could hide the implausibility's of his story that never delivers a realistic blow behind the one/two team up of Isaac and Hedlund going head to head and saying "brother" far too often but with Isaac relegated to a few brief moments of genuine menace and intrigue Hedlund's Hollywood big shot is a hard protagonist to get on board with and it's another lacking turn from the young actor that showed such great promise in early ventures like Friday Night Lights and Troy.The problem found within this central battle of Mojave isn't its only huge hurdle as the film also suffers from an identity crisis not unlike the one Hedlund's Tom is suffering within the narrative. Is the film a sombre examination of tormented artists? A dark comedy skewering the Hollywood lifestyle? There questions Monahan and his team no doubt pondered but didn't have the skill set to answer and the films blurred vision is something that will deter many a viewer from enjoying what's laid before them.An extremely disappointing experience that wastes the considerable talents of Isaac in a try hard plot that wants to say a lot and ends up saying nothing, Mojave is an utterly forgettable film that no one deserves to be put through and a career low point for the usually trustworthy Monahan.1 "brother" out of 5